The mission of FastPitchTech is to develop each player-student into the best Pitcher, Catcher, Hitter, Fielder or all around softball player that she can be. This development will be achieved though the use of proven fastpitch fundamentals and mechanics, emphasizing the legs and lower body core.

  Instructor Ray Massie has 19 years of experience in coaching the girls fastpitch softball. Pitching from beginning to advanced, rotational hitting and the left side slap, drag and power slap are all part of his expertise. He began his career at the recreational level in ASA 8U. Quickly realized there was much more to this game than meets the average eye.

The extreme competitive nature of the sport along with the intense quickness needed to make each play, simply to compete, appealed to him.

He began to attend clinics and study the very best in the game, Dot Richardson, Lisa Fernandez, Sheila Cornell, Michelle Smith, Nancy Evans and Mike Epstein to name a few, and began to draw knowledge from this elite pool of wisdom. Now with his own almost 20 yrs of experience to combine with this clinical knowledge he has become an accomplished teacher of the sport.

Since his first experience in 8U, Ray has coached every age group up to and including 18U Gold. Most of his teams were built around a nucleus of neighborhood kids that he developed into quality “A” /Gold players. Ray has always taken joy in developing players and teams rather than “recruiting” already proven players. Many of his former players went on to successful college careers. This development of players for his teams eventually led to the private instruction of players in this most fundamentally demanding sport and the forming of FastPitchTech.

All lessons are given in west Ft. Worth, Tx

For more information, references or to set up an initial lesson for either private, group, teams or coaches :

Contact Ray at  fastpitchtech@yahoo.com

                           817-559-4703

The Natural Power Pitching Program is pitching instruction that stresses the use of natural body leverage and power from the legs and the core body muscles rather than the arms and shoulders, with the delivery of the ball happening in an open stance and slight body angle.

Pitchers will learn the fastball with placement at all four corners of the plate, changeup, screwball, curve, backdoor curve, rise and drop.

The Natural Power Hitting Program is based on the rotational hitting concept that is used by most of todays greatest hitters, that potentially turns singles into line-drive doubles and doubles into line-drive homers.

The Left-side speed game teaches the fundamentals involved in the running slap, running bunt, sacrifice bunt, standard slap, fake bunt and also works on developing proper running techniques to increase speed.

Catchers learn correct leg work, decreased pop times, blocking skills, correct use of equipment, correct techniques for catching the breaking pitches and framing the plate.